NamedWork: Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child (Nonfiction
work)

Persons:

Reviewee: Marotz, Lynn R.

Accession Number:

202918141

Full Text:

HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION FOR THE YOUNG CHILD (7thed.). Lynn R.
Marotz, Ph.D. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2009. 570pp.
Paperback, $118.75. In this seventh edition of Health, Safety, and
Nutrition for the Young Child, Lynn R. Marotz expands upon a successful
text by including a CD with forms in Microsoft Word and PDF formats that
can be used for in-class exercises by those teaching a course. This
practical element will facilitate the opportunities an educator has to
merge theory and research with practice.

Marotz has a background in nursing and has been the health and
safety coordinator at Edna A. Hill Child Development Center at the
University of Kansas for 30 years. She has published numerous books and
contributed to several articles on childhood obesity and issues of
health, safety, and nutrition.

A unique addition to this edition is the "Focus on
Families" feature, which aims to support collaboration between
families and educators. The New Food Pyramid is included, as well as
Teacher Checklists for each chapter and recommended classroom activities
that will reinforce content with meaningful lessons for children.
Helpful Web resources and a listing of relevant children's books
are included to support the practitioner.

With research showing a rise in childhood obesity, this text aims
to support educators and parents in reversing this trend by discussing
such topics as the interrelationship of health, safety, and nutrition;
health assessment tools; management of injuries and acute illness;
nutritional guidelines; nutritional needs at different age levels; and
food safety. By guiding educators to improve nutritional practice, young
children will develop important health style routines that will serve
them as good lifelong habits.

Our current focus on content area instruction at all grade levels
has prevented us from educating the whole child. This text will help
educators by making them aware of the latest literature in the areas of
health, safety, and nutrition. It is an important aspect that is
frequently ignored in this standardized era and one that requires our
attention. Reviewed by Lilia C. DiBello, Ed.D., Curriculum and
Instruction Department, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL.